Friday, September 18, 2015

Khameni YouTube video: 'If any war happens'

MEMRI reports on a tweet by Ayatollah Ali Khameni that links to a video called 'If any war happens.'

The video, which is 1:43 in duration and accompanied by some English
subtitles, opens by showing U.S. President Barack Obama stating that the
U.S. will not have a problem "knocking out [Iran's] military with speed
and dispatch if we choose to." In response, Khamenei, in a July 18,
2015 address,[1]
calls this threat by Obama "nonsense stemming from ignorance." Khamenei
goes on to advise the Americans to "use their experiences [in the
Middle East] correctly" as images play in the background: a swift boat
attack on an American aircraft carrier, photos of the advanced American
RQ-170 drone that Iran brought down on its soil, a photo of Hizbullah
leader Hassan Nasrallah against a backdrop of a missile flying the
Hizbullah flag, photos from the 2006 Lebanon war, Khamenei delivering a
speech to soldiers from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
(IRGC), Iranian missiles being launched and striking ships, bodies of
American soldiers returning from Iraq, and a photo of Khamenei leading
Iran's top military echelon as a crowd calls "Khamenei is the leader."

Khamenei is then heard to say: "We will not be the first to [launch]
any war, we do not welcome any war. But if any war happens here, the
invading and criminal America will be the side that will leave the war
arena defeated." In the background a crowd calls "We will stand until
the end, Khamenei is the leader."

Let's go to the videotape.

You have to wonder why Khameni is bothering. Obama has been shown time and again to be nothing but bluster (the Bin Laden rubout was carried out by others without his approval), and he doesn't want to do anything to undermine this 'deal,' which is now his foreign policy legacy.

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